Active Marriage and Best Practices

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General Information

Summary Paragraph

Active Marriage and Best Practices for Healthy Relationships is an innovative, 8 to 12 hour curriculum that combines the best practices (ideas and exercises) from the fields of marriage education, relationship skills, positive psychology, and conflict resolution. The information and exercises in this program are selected from years of work, watching, teaching, studying research, and learning first hand which tools work best with individuals and couples.

Curriculum Purpose

The goals of the program are to enhance awareness of and to teach acceptance of personal responsibility for relationship success (including responsibility for choice of partners, internal happiness, and behaviors that create success); to enhance the habit of assuming good will; to increase respect for differences of ideas, manners of behaving, and relating; to increase knowledge and skills for power over and control of personal internal emotional climates; and to provide essential tools for creating effective relationships.

Curriculum Type

Healthy Marriage / Relationship

Edition

2007

Other Versions Available

Yes- Spanish: Matrimonio Activo y Mejores Practicas (copyright 2012)

Total Hours

8.00 to 12.00 hours

Total Hours Flexible

Yes

Frequency

May be conducted in a series of five sessions; divided in half and taught in two sessions; or one daylong 8-hour session